When next you hear of America or Britain pretending to champion human rights, read these facts of history spanning the most recent hundred years and judge for yourself:

1901 South Africa - The British army was engaged in a war with the Boers. British began burning down civilian farms and destroying crops. Concentration camps set up where thousands of civilian women and children died due to epidemics.

1900 China - US Gen. Chaftee attacked Beijing. Plundering and rape of Chinese civilians by US and European troops followed. Hundreds of Chinese beheaded.

1916 Ireland - Irish uprising seeking independence from Britain was ruthlessly put down by British soldiers. Buildings were reduced to rubble. Thousands of civilian deaths.